Prevalencia de trastornos de los sonidos del habla, pacientes 3-5 años atendidos por teleterapia. Cuenca, marzo- diciembre 2020

Abstract

Background: In the COVID-19 pandemic, medical services found alternative ways such as teletherapy to maintain the provision of health services to patients. Teletherapy provides prevention, evaluation and intervention services through videoconference. Speech therapy is one of the clinical fields in which teletherapy has been found useful and has made it possible to treat pathologies such as Speech Sound Disorder (SSD). (1) SSD occurs due to affectation of the phonetic component (articulatory production of sounds) or affectation of the phonological component (functional use of contrastive segments of speech). (2) Objective: To determine the prevalence of Speech Sound Disorders in patients aged 3-5 years attended by teletherapy. Cuenca, March-December 2020. Methodology: The SPSS and Excel programs were used to tabulate, in the analysis of the results qualitative variables were used: frequency, number and percentages; to represent them, simple and contingency tables were used. Results: The majority of those surveyed with 37.1% treated 1-5 patients with TSH through teletherapy; the highest percentage with 46.78% treated male patients; the majority with 22.58% attended patients between 4 years 1 month to 4 years 6 months of age; 69.4% used the Phonetic-Phonological-Revised Evaluation Protocol (PEFF-R); 64.5% diagnosed their patients with Phonetic-Phonological TSH and the majority with 33.9% used a care time greater than 4 months.